Table Of ContentSPECIAL SECTION:
19 2012 GLOBAL
JAN ELECTRONICS
DISTRIBUTION SPECIAL
Issue 2/2012
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EDN.comment Pg 10
Teardown Pg 24
Design Ideas Pg 77
The silence of the
VOICE OF THE ENGINEER
circuit Pg 86
ANALOG DESIGN IN THE
Noise wars:
Projected
21 CENTURY:
capacitance ST
strikes back
against CHALLENGES, TOOLS,
internal noise
Page 61 AND IC ADVANCES
Use a Page 66
switching
regulator to
power a high-
speed ADC
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contents
1.19.12
Noise wars: Projected
capacitance strikes back
against internal noise
61Charger and display noise affects
touchscreens, but there are ways to
Analog design in the 21st
tackle this problem.
century: challenges, tools,
by John Carey,
and IC advances Cypress Semiconductor Corp
66 Analog-circuit-design engineers over- Use a switching regulator
come new challenges with advanced
to power a high-speed ADC
tools and ICs.
by Steve Taranovich, 73A properly designed switching regu-
Contributing Technical Editor lator can improve the power efficien-
cy of low-power, high-speed ADCs without
significantly sacrificing performance.
by Thomas Neu, Texas Instruments
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MOSFETs
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Dilbert 14
Small Power MOSFETs
Designed for Handheld Devices
12 BLDC-fan motor driver 18 I ntel rolls out 32-nm Atom,
employs sensorless preps 22-nm Ivy Bridge
sinusoidal architecture
18 S mall MEMS modules boost
14 Foundation readies consumer-device sensitivity
$25 PC for launch
18 C AN transceiver isolates
16 SLI eliminates the need signals to 5 kV rms, handles up to 2 A up to 4 A up to 7 A up to 10 A
for touch in MEMS temperatures to 125°C
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applications
19 D ifferential op amp tackles PQFN 2x2
16 Tiny dc/dc power modules common-mode voltage as high Gate Drive - 4.5V Optimized,
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20 V oices: Mark Mitchell: An early DS(on) Part
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18 Microcontrollers target interest in computers leads to DSS 4.5 V 2.5 V Number
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83 Product Roundup: Optoelectronics and Displays
86 Tales from the Cube: The silence of the circuit
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BY patrick mannion, director of content
ment-business-hardware division. I’ll
be looking forward to catching up with
Spillinger after his keynote speech to get
more information on his vision of gam-
ing, underlying architectures, and the
future of sensor-based user interfaces.
Finally, on Wednesday, Prith Banerjee,
senior vice president of research at
CES is over;
Hewlett-Packard and director of HP
it’s time to start designing Labs, the epicenter of the company’s
R&D, will give us his take on where the
A opportunities lie and what HP may be
t press time, I was preparing to fly to Las Vegas for the 2012
doing about it. Banerjee’s own research
CES (Consumer Electronics Show), where I am looking for-
interests include VLSI computer-aided
ward to unearthing and presenting for evaluation some truly design, parallel computing, and com-
innovative, exciting, and useful technology and devices pilers. He is the author of about 300
from among the thousands of gizmos and gadgets that will research papers in these areas, so his
thoughts will be worth tapping into.
inevitably catch my curious eye. By the time you read this,
The technical tracks focus on signal
however, CES will be behind us; you will have already determined the good,
integrity, as usual, but there’s a clear
the bad, and the ugly; and either you will be looking forward to getting your
emphasis on 3-D packaging, high-speed
hands on the coolest gadget or, more likely for an EDN reader, you’ll have interfaces (28 Gbps, for example),
already poked holes in the designs shown at CES 2012 and are now well FPGAs, analog design and verification,
on the way toward imagining how you or your design team can do better, and PCB layout. For test, it’s not news
that high-speed serial buses are causing
possibly even before CES 2013!
concern for designers, so to help provide
With that thought in mind, I would and, of course, happy-hour opportuni- some hands-on help, Agilent has agreed
like to invite you, on behalf of UBM ties to mix with your peers and digest to step you through the challenges and
Electronics and Barry Sullivan, IEC the information while visiting a packed the testing tools available in high-speed
director and technical-program chair, exhibit floor. Even at this stage, we’re serial-design workflow, from design and
to DesignCon 2012, Jan 30 to Feb 2, in still trying to squeeze in more, so keep simulation through turn-on, debugging,
Santa Clara, CA. It may be no coinci- up to date at www.designcon.com. and system and compliance testing.
dence that this conference so quickly To set the tone for each day, we’ll Don’t miss the session “Design and Test
follows CES, the biggest display of elec- have keynote speeches from industry Challenges in Next Generation High-
tronic designers’ wizardry. DesignCon visionaries, starting on Monday, Jan 30, Speed Serial Standards.”
focuses on both inspiration and deep- with Joe Macri, corporate vice presi- Elsewhere at the conference, I’ll be
dive exploration of the technologies dent and chief technology officer of leading a panel discussion with four of
and techniques designers can apply AMD’s client division. Macri is also the brightest minds in test to see where
toward forging the next generation of chairman of the JEDEC JC42.3 DRAM the challenges are for you, the design-
electronic devices and systems. Committee and vice chair at large of er, and what test companies are doing
This year’s conference is jam-packed the JEDEC board of directors. His areas about them. Among several teardown
with something for everyone look- of expertise are in CPU, memory, and sessions, iFixit’s Kyle Wiens will be
ing to get the right signal from Point graphic design, with more than 20 pat- comparing Amazon’s Kindle Fire with
A to Point B intact—or at least in a ents pending or granted. Go to http:// Barnes & Noble’s latest Nook, and I’ll
decipherable form—as efficiently and bit.ly/z0W24o for an overview of what’s be tearing down the Vizio and gTab-
elegantly as possible, from die, through happening at DesignCon with respect let tablets and a Cisco Linksys E3200
packaging, to board and system. So it’s to high-speed memory design. router. Read more about the Vizio tablet
safe to say that “everyone” includes just Ilan Spillinger, corporate vice on page 24 of this issue and at http://bit.
about every engineer out there involved president for hardware architecture ly/zKZT42. If you’d like to participate in
in design and test. at Microsoft, will kick off the day on the discussion on tablet design and the
Toward that end, we have panels, Tuesday. His group leads the Xbox 360 state of Wi-Fi design, let me know. I’ll
technical tracks, teardowns, awards and Kinect architecture and verifica- be sure to include you. I look forward to
(DesignVision and Test & Measurement tion, silicon design, hardware incuba- seeing you there!EDN
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